Zil's Crazy 'Punisher' Armored Vehicles Spotted On The Streets Of Russia

It looks like a heavily armored (possibly production) variant ofmay have made it into operational service with The video below, posted in June, shows the futuristic armored truck roaming Russian roads with other jet black armored vehicles normally associated with Russia’s security forces. , also from June, shows no less...

Apr 10, 2026

This Video Says Goodbye To The QF-4 Phantom Drone In Awesome Phashion

The F-4 Phantom has flown for U.S. forces for 55 years, serving for the last couple of decades strictly in the. A bittersweet mission that saw the optionally manned jets relegated to flying for a few hundred hours (some much less) before being obliterated during live-fire testing. Now, the Phantom’s...

Apr 10, 2026

A C-130 Hercules Amphibian Makes Too Much Sense To Be True

The C-130 is the world’s most prolific cargo hauler and it’s been adapted to do pretty much with one exception: operating on water. Yet some of the folks at Lockheed wanted to do just that in the 1960s. Sure, amphibious planes are a niche, but the already boat-like C-130 seems...

Apr 10, 2026

Journey Through 240 Years Of US Army Uniforms In Two Minutes

Fashions and utilitarian needs change in the course of nearly two and a half centuries, and that goes for United States Army combat uniforms as well. It can be hard to picture what the older ones were like, outside of paintings and black-and-white photographs, so allow this video from to...

Apr 10, 2026

The Navy's Little Missiles Could Be Popping Up In Many More Places

This image shows the Cyclone Class coastal patrol boat USS Firebolt shooting off a $100,000 Griffin surface-to-surface missile during a training exercise in the Arabian Gulf. Different variants of the Griffin have been put to use aboard everything from ships to unmanned aircraft to to in recent years, and many...

Apr 10, 2026

This ICBM Test Video Shows How Gorgeous The Beginning Of The End Will Be

These breathtaking nighttime launches of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile out of give you an idea of how the beginning of the end of the world would look if mankind decided to call it a day. The Minutemen III is the backbone of America’s land-based portion of its Some 450 LGM-30Gs...

Apr 10, 2026

'Absolute Youngest' Marine In The F-35 Test Force Shares His Experiences

One of our readers, Dustin Gulley, was a U.S. Marine Corps Hornet airframe mechanic who made his way into the F-35 Integrated Test Force at the astonishingly young age of 20. He’s here to share his experiences wrenching on Hornets around the globe and getting up-close and personal with the...

Apr 10, 2026

Flyby Over Buckingham Palace Marks 75th Anniversary Of Battle Of Britain

Today the Queen of England presided over a celebration marking the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. The event was capped off with a flyby by two Hurricanes and four Spitfire warbirds, along with four modern . July 10th is a historical date as it was then, 75 years...

Apr 10, 2026

The Rules Of Riding On The Back Of Another Man's Motorcycle

Besides chain smoking, or being a 1960s movie star, nothing makes you look sexier than riding a motorcycle. But when you’re a man it’s awfully hard to look cool on the back of another man’s bike, an unceremonious position referred to as “riding bitch.” Is there a way to ride...

Apr 10, 2026

Chris Birch Is Disgustingly Talented At Throwing Around A KTM 1190

I just rented a KTM 990 for a weekend and thought I handled it pretty well through the hills and trails of the Mendocino forest and out to the coast. Then I watch Chris Birch flogging an 1190 Adventure through all the things and am once again confronted by the...

Apr 10, 2026

This Tank Carrier Challenged Crimea's Winding Roads And Lost

This is what happens when you take a corner too fast with a 100,000-pound tank riding on your tractor trailer. It is amazing just how fast the truck goes from speeding along to literally rolling off the road. Physics is a stubborn SOB. The Foxtrot Alpha reader who sent this...

Apr 10, 2026

What The Secretary Of Defense Is Doing At 'Billionaire Summer Camp'

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, a long-time Washington insider and President Obama’s fourth Secretary of Defense, recently came back from a whistle-stop trip of the globe and , Russia, and other major strategic uncertainties that face the United States. So what is he doing in Sun Valley at a private It...

Apr 10, 2026

Virtually Fly With Switzerland's F-5 Demo Team Using 360 Video Tech

The heart-pounding aviation videos we have grown to love may soon be changing into a much more immersive and personal experience. In this video of the going through formation maneuvers over the Swiss Alps, everything is visible, from the stick and throttle movements to the amazing scenery. Make sure you...

Apr 10, 2026

The Official Response To The F-35's Dismal Dogfight Report Is Misleading

The F-35 Joint Program Office countered a. The test pilot report criticized the jet’s abilities in the within-visual-range air-to-air arena, even against an F-16D sporting a pair of 330 gallon wing tanks. Amazingly, their response is damning in its own right and is far from forthcoming on the issue. The...

Apr 10, 2026

Motorcycle Journalism Is Broken. This Is How We're Going To Fix It.

When was the last time you read something that made you want to get on a bike? Go ahead, I’ll wait. I won’t blame you if you can’t come up with any stories that made you want to get on your motorcycle, or start riding one. That’s the problem. Motorcycle...

Apr 10, 2026